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Re: [HEADS UP] Removing python24 and python25



D'Arcy Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On 12-03-02 10:45 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Well, maybe I'm off.  But in that case, let's drop everything but 2.7
>> and call it plain python, no suffix on the package, and no suffix on the
>> installed files, and and remove all support for older versions, so that
>> we'd treat it like perl5.  Would that be ok?  (That's a serious
>> question; my impression is that it would not be ok.)
>
> No, we need 2.7 and 3.x because 3.x is not quite ready for prime
> time yet.  As for 2.[4567], as far as I can tell you are correct
> except for Zope which requires a feature only available in 2.4
> which is EOL'd so maybe we should drop Zope as well.  My impression
> is that Zope people build it manually anyway.

Sorry, I meant only 2.x.

It seems that no one expects all 2.x code to just work with 3.x.  But I
may be wrong on that too.

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